The Dragon Age Website now offers downloads of the promised playable demo for Dragon Age II, BioWare's RPG sequel. The demo is available in three varieties, an English demo which includes Espa˝ol, Italiano, Polski, and Русский subtitles, which is mirrored on AtomicGamer, ComputerGames.ro, Gamer's Hell, WorthPlaying; a Deutsch demo, which is mirrored on Gamer's Hell; and a demo en Franšais, which is mirrored on AtomicGamer and Gamer's Hell. They also remind us of the previously announced promotion that will provide players with two in-game items if the demo achieves one million downloads and logins by March 1st, and word is that all players who complete the demo by May 31st will receive and additional in-game item. Here's word:

In the demo, players will venture through the game's prologue, choosing from three different character classes. They'll also learn more about Hawke and hone their skills and abilities that will make them the ultimate hero. After finishing the prologue, players will enter a key new location in the world of Dragon Age, Kirkwall, befriending Isabela, a romantic interest in the game who is also a deadly smuggler. Upon completion of the demo, players will unlock a special weapon, Hayder's Razor, an ancient dwarven blade which increases health, mana, and combat abilities, in the full release of Dragon Age 2.

Verno wrote on Feb 23, 2011, 10:01:That's really unfair. Just because you like the specific changes doesn't mean it's good to everyone else. People have been patient and outlined changes for you and you just dismiss them all out of hand as minor.

Because they are minor to me... I can't lie. Injury kits? Backstabbing? It's minor stuff. The only thing seriously different is the camera, which honestly I don't care much about because I rarely used the far-back camera in DA:O, and the ME-style dialogue, which I think suits a Bioware game better.

At the end of the day it is 95% the same game. I am actually stunned at how exactly the same it is considering how much they talked about changing it. I am sure some people have priorities hidden in that 5% difference, but I think not being able to get over that is a resistance to change.

So because you played the first game like an action game it means none of the changes are impactful for anyone else. Gotcha